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strange creatures reported during the

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1973 U.S UFO flap by Charles Lear 1973

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was a special year for UFO enthusiasts

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Not only was there a huge number of

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reports in the newspapers as can be seen

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in the issues of the UFO news clipping

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service from that year there were many

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that were especially strange this was

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the year of the coin incident involving

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a report that EOS Army Reserve

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helicopter in the sky over Cleveland was

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pulled up by a UFO while its controls

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were set to descend and the pascagoul

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incident involving a report by two men

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that they were taken aboard a crack by

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floating elephant-skinned robot-like

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creatures these two cases made the front

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page of the September October 1973 afro

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bulletin but a case that has been

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overshadowed by these two cases has the

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big headline occupants in Indiana as the

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lead story in that issue according to

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the reporter presumably one or both of

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the lorenzen's Tim and coral who were

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the founders of Abra and ran it until

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their deaths in the late 1980s at 9 45

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pm on October 22nd 1973 Donna and Dwayne

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Donathan were heading East on Indiana

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State Road 26 from Mrs donathan's

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mother's house to their home in Hartford

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City Indiana the description in the

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article of what happened from there is

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made up of quotes taken from an

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interview Mrs Jonathan gave to April

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field investigator Donald Worley Mrs

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Donathan was driving and Mr Donathan was

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in the passenger seat with their baby

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about one block from their home after

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rounding a curve and coming over a small

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hill they saw what they thought were two

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children about four feet tall standing

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in the road Mrs Donathan stopped about

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30 feet away from them and with the

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headlights on them saw that they weren't

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children according to her they seemed

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confused and hopped she said their feet

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would come up slowly one at a time and

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their arms would flop funny they moved

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slower than humans and their feet and

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arms would go up funny her feet came off

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the ground easy and they were bright

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silver in color according to the

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reporter Mrs Donathan said they had a

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light build and in the reporter's words

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straight informed to the ground her

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attention was on their feet and she

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didn't remember seeing heads or any

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other features she said the feet had

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what looked like boxes on them somewhat

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larger than a shoe and she said she

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didn't see any hands she said she didn't

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remember hearing a sound but the car was

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still running and the tape was playing

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in the machine at a high volume she

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didn't notice an odor and said that in

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the reporter's words the clothing or the

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surface of the creatures appeared to be

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tight fitting according to the reporter

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Mrs Jonathan was quite frightened and

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sped off quickly past the creatures she

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drove in a panic for several blocks

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before Mr Donathan got her to stop in an

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old church Mr Donathan hadn't gotten a

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good look at the creatures and wasn't

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convinced they weren't children despite

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her fear Mrs Donathan was convinced by

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Mr Donathan to drive back to the area

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and if it turned out that what they saw

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were children he was prepared to scold

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them when they got there all they saw

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were unidentified lights in the north

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and paid little attention to them they

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went back to Mrs Donovan's mother's

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house and Mrs Donathan was so upset they

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thought she would need a doctor but she

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eventually recovered another witness

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account is described in the article

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after the Donovan account according to

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the reporter gas station owner and

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record driver Gary flatter heard a call

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come in about the Donovan sighting when

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he was with his friend Deputy Sheriff Ed

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Townsend and a state policeman that

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didn't wish to be named they went out to

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the area and saw nothing but they did

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report hearing high frequency noise at a

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certain spot along the road platter

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returned in his record along with the

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state policeman in his patrol car they

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separated and flattered noticed a large

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number of animals running across the

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road he stopped to avoid hitting them

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and counted six or seven rabbits upon

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awesome a raccoon and some cats he also

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heard the same sound he'd heard before

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looking around he spotted two small

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creatures in a plowed field he got them

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in his headlights and stayed 75 feet

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away according to him they were about

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four feet tall and were silvery

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tight-fitting uniforms he said they

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glared in the light about halfway

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between galvanized sheet metal and

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aluminum he put a spotlight on them and

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they turned their entire bodies around

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giving him the impression that they

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didn't like the light the light from the

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spotlight that reflected off the

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creatures was blinding so he turned the

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spotlight off ladder's description added

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more details to that of Mrs Donathan he

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said the creatures had egg-shaped heads

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with masks that had a tube coming out of

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them that went into the creature's

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chests he didn't see eyes or ears he

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said their arms had no hands on the ends

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of them and that their feet were square

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with a heel a little odor in the back

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platter described their movement and his

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description was similar to the that of

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Mrs Donovan they would move about three

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feet off the ground then go back down

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all of this in slow motion they did this

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three times and then they flew off like

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a helicopter in the feet down position

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and disappeared into the darkness the

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next day flattered Deputy Townsend and

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Mr Donathan went to the area of the

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Jonathan's encounter in a nearby

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cornfield they reportedly found seven

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three-quarter inch Impressions three

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inches wide that according to the

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reporter looked as though they had been

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made by a heel that was not as round as

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ordinary Hills it had not rain for days

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and the three men weighing an average of

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200 pounds left no Footprints this story

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also appears in the 1976 book encounters

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with UFO occupants by Jim and coral

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Lorenzen in the chapter titled floating

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flying euphonots in this version it is

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reported that the donovans drove into

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Hartford City to report their sighting

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to the Sheriff's Office where flatter

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was with Townsend who was on duty the

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story also shows up in the 1974 Center

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for UFO studies publication

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1973 the year of the humanoids by David

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Webb with an additional setting by a

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woman this is Debbie carring the same

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night as the other sightings according

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to the narrative she saw two

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silver-suited four-foot humanoids while

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driving and they made a loud noise and

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raised their arms as if to scare her

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platter sighting is reported to have

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been the next day what would a UFO story

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be without at least a little discrepancy

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Charles Lear is the author of The Flying

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Saucer investigators available at

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foreign